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Title: Forbes Greatest Investing Stories by Richard Phalon ISBN: 0-471-35624-7 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 14 September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Great lessons, lacking in style
Comment: This book tracks the stories of some of the most successful investors in the history of Wall Street. It contains fundamental lessons and the anecdotes it contains are being repeated throughout the world today. Scandals, overly aggressive accounting, generous executive options, corporate greed, folly all have been well documented in this book and all are manifesting themselves today in the form of Anderson, Enron, Worldcom and so forth.
I like this book because it focuses on fundamentals. The most successful investors invariably focus on value stocks and long term growth. They look for basics such as earnings and cash flows. They look behind the accounting numbers and are not bamboozled by glossy brochures or big name executives. A wise investor would not have been sucked up by the dot com hype. They would have seen the companies for what they were, overpriced flash-in-the-pans.
Whilst this book contains many valuable lessons, the style was dry and at times difficult to get through. So, whilst the book is not an entertaining read, anyone interested in purchasing quality stocks should definitely have a look at this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring and Relevant
Comment: Reading this reminded me that bad ecomonic news can create terrific opportunities in the market-- the moral of the story of the very first story, which talks about Benjamin Graham and his protoge Warren Buffett! It was eerie how similar the "Investors Beware" chapter about the CUC/HFS International debacle is to what's currently going on with Enron: "If the 'story' behind the stock seems too good to be true, it probably is." A great read -- the author truly seems to love and relish what he's talking about and I learned a ton that heartened my sagging investing confidence (and hopefully my sagging portfolio as well).
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Title: Forbes® Greatest Business Stories of All Time by Forbes Magazine Staff, Daniel Gross ISBN: 0471196533 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 07 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Bull! : A History of the Boom, 1982-1999: What drove the Breakneck Market--and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles by Maggie Mahar ISBN: 006056413X Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Forbes Great Success Stories: Twelve Tales of Victory Wrested from Defeat by Alan Farnham ISBN: 0471383597 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 28 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Investment Philosophies: Successful Investment Philosophies and the Greatest Investors Who Made Them Work by Aswath Damodaran ISBN: 0471345032 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 10 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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Title: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Bestseller on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham ISBN: 0060155477 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 22 January, 1986 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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